The Federation of Khasi Jaiñtia and Garo People (FKJGP) has raised concerns over lack of medical facilities at the Shillong Civil Hospital and met with the authorities there seeking redressal of the deficiencies.
According to the organisation, the hospital has a non-functioning MRI machine, shortage of staff and absence of pathology tests that are affecting the people, especially the poor who depend on the government hospital for treatment.
FKJGP president Dundee C. Khongsit met Additional Director, Civil Hospital Dr A Kharjana following complaints from the public.
Khongsit said they were informed that the MRI machine stopped functioning from 2018 and no action has been taken to replace it till date. “If such machines in Civil Hospital, Shillong are not there, for the patients coming from poor backgrounds, we can well imagine what the situation in the rural areas is,” he said.
He also said that the hospital does not have a pathologist, of which they were informed that there has been no step taken to appoint a replacement after one was transferred to Ganesh Das Hospital,
Khongsit said that health care is the basic right of every citizen of the state and lack of infrastructures in government owned centres in turn affects the poor.
The members of the FKJGP also met the families of the patients who are admitted at the hospital who revealed that they had to purchase medicines from outside.
